Diana & Actaeon
Diana & Callisto
These two Titian's have been on loan to the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh by the Duke of Sutherland since 1945 and he has now offered them to the gallery for GBP100m, (considered a knock down price), and in two stages, allowing GBP50m to be raised to pay for the first and the second GBP50m to be raised four years later. There are a number of sources the galleries, (the Edinburgh one and the National Gallery in London), can tap which have in the past prevented important works of art leaving Britain for abroad.
A series of marriages by the (Leveson-) Gower family, (the Sutherland family name) to heiresses made them one of the richest in the United Kingdom. Their "seat" in Scotland is Dunrobin Castle, an extraordinary confection of a building, more akin to a French chateau than to a Scottish house, and the more extraordinary because of its remoteness in the very north of Scotland, (see below).
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